by Carl Howard | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Language Log takes a look at the unsourced factlets that are often used when trying to show how the youngsters aren’t literate anymore, nobody reads and hey, the sky is falling too. How racial prejudice contributed to the foreclosure crisis in terms of which loans...
by Carl Howard | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Philosophy, Race
A while ago, one of my friends started a discussion on Facebook about porn. The question was something like: is porn “morally good or morally bad”? I thought I’d be the Socratic asshole and noticed that it was telling that the question even makes sense — if you...
by Carl Howard | Oct 2, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Travel
The kinds of things I’ll post here are probably what’s at the top of most people’s minds with respect to Iran. And certainly religion plays a very major role in Iran. There are a lot of atrocities that are reported in the international news, especially in terms of...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
US abortion clinics are often lined with protesters harassing those going in and giving them “literature”. What happens when one of the people going in decides to give the protesters a pamphlet of her own (a Flying Spaghetti Monster one)? Hilarious inept bigotry: a...
by Carl Howard | Sep 27, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy
The recent post on anti-bullying got me thinking about the irrational way we humans tend to assign people responsibility when they do something bad or careless. Here’s the meme again: The boy you punched in the hall today. Committed suicide a few minutes ago. That...
by Carl Howard | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Travel
Here are some of the interesting things I noticed about culture and modern life in Iran. This is a particularly hard topic to list stuff about so I’m sure I missed some crucial things that I saw in favour of the stuff I happened to remember. Like most of the Middle...
